Seal Impression

This category includes clay objects on which seal impressions were made. Many of these were found in PG (the SIS layers). Some of them have impressions of what they were sealing on the opposite side: vessels or the knots used to lock doors.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
11689	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing. Presentation scene (?) (2 figures approaching a third. The 3rd. looks human: carries a weapon like the sign RU) illegible? inscription.
11690	(none)	1928,1010.831, 19281010.83	(none)	Seal Impression. Bull (?)-Man embracing gazelle? Bird (small) holding the gazelle? Horned ? -man holding the bird. In front of Horned (?) man Scorpion, behind him, serpent. Illegible? fragment of Inscription.
12501	(none)	1935,0113.632	(none)	Clay seal impression. 1)Naked warrior and god? Incription: ^dutu. 2) Lower half of another (?) figure. HC1809
12502	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay sealing with impression from large cylinder: man in punt, animal (in punt?) and other animals.
12539	(none)	1935,0113.633	(none)	Seal impression. Animal.
12542A	(none)	1935,0113.635	(none)	[A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed.
12543A	(none)	1935,0113.778	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay jar sealings. Roughly conical with leaf pattern.
12544	(none)	1928,1010.827	(none)	Seal impression. Line of dancers (?). Naked.
12546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Animals.
12548A	(none)	1935,0113.636	(none)	Seal impression. 2 similar clay sealings geometrical pattern [A-B].
12548B	(none)	1935,0113.637	(none)	Seal impression. 2 similar clay sealings geometrical pattern [A-B].
12549	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression ? Man carrying gazelle.
12550	(none)	1928,1010.826	(none)	Seal impression. From large cylinder. Man, beast, and rosette.
12551	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Animals.
12552	(none)	1935,0113.638	(none)	Seal impression. Man fighting beasts?
12553	(none)	1928,1010.829	(none)	Seal impression. Pattern of beasts and stars?
12554	(none)	1935,0113.639	(none)	Seal impression.
12555	(none)	1935,0113.640	(none)	Seal impression.
12556	(none)	1935,0113.641	(none)	Seal impression.
12771M	(none)	1928,1010.719	(none)	Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid].
(none)	(none)	1935,0113.642	(none)	Unknown
12774Q	(none)	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
12774S	(none)	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
12776G.1	(none)	1928,1010.745	(none)	Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV.
12820	(none)	1935,0113.643	(none)	Seal impression (pattern?)